Tag: productivity
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Skitch – Quick Review
Have you ever wanted to annotate an image to highlight something important and had to resort to low-tech techniques like using the default Paint program in Windows? Are you looking for a better alternative? Look no further. Skitch is the quick and easy way to add annotation to your images. Overview Skitch, by Evernote, is…
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Zamurai Mobile Whiteboard – Short Review
Back in the 1990s I was fascinated with electronic whiteboards. These things work like ordinary whiteboards on which you would write then press a button to print the content of the whiteboard for copying and distribution. It was better than taking a photograph, print or nowadays digital. The problem back then and still now is…
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Apple Wireless Keyboard and iPad Air – Hands-on test
The other day I made friends with someone who had a similar approach to technology as me. He had bought an Apple wireless keyboard to go with his iPad. As logic would dictate genuine Apple products should work seamlessly with their other products. But this was not the case. Soon after I bought my keyboard…
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Zotero
Manage your paper/articles/thesis references with Zotero. Zotero is a free and open-source add-on to Firefox, Chrome or Safari for managing your references within papers, articles or thesis. You may ask why is it in a browser. Good question. Hopefully it will be abundantly clear after you have finished reading this post. Workflow Typically I go…
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Surface Pro 2 or iPad Air?
Our family secondary computer has finally died. It was a 2007 Sony Vaio notebook running Vista. It had served us well. RIP. This means we need a replacement, a new computer. So it was time to take measure of what is out there. The landscape has certainly changed since 2007. And my family’s tech has…
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Playing with the ix500
Bought a Fujitsu ix500 scanner last week. Wow! I don’t know how I had lived without this incredible machine for so long. The scanning is so quick – 30 pages double-sided in a minute. By default it saves as PDF. But one click and it is converted into a Word document. I scanned a novel…
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Wait for the full Microsoft Surface with Windows 8
Apparently the released version of the Microsoft Surface version this week isn’t the full version. The version now is more like a tablet (example: Apple iPad) with an app store. This means it cannot do productivity stuff yet. But according to this video the 2013 version will be running Windows 8 (think next version of…
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iPhone mobile projector
Here is a nice portable projector for your iPhone 4/4S. As usual Jetdaisuke gives an entertaining review. Here are the key points: bright at 35 lumens maximum projection size 1524 cm (yes, centimitres) 120min battery life works as a OHP (overhead projector) with your camera With external speakers you can add sound to your presentations.…
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Surface or iPad? That is the question.
I have been tossing about which tablet to buy. For me the question is productivity-based – I want to be able do word processing on the road. Lugging around a PC hasn’t been fun. And often I just give up. But look at my choices I see that Microsoft is coming out with their Surface…
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Apple Digital AV Adapter for iPhone/iPad
Wow. Who needs a computer anymore when you have an iPhone or iPad. With this digital AV adapter you can do your powerpoint presentations from your igear. Check out jetdaisuke‘s video on YouTube (sorry, in Japanese but you can get an idea of how it works).
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